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Goin' Home | Chapter CHAPTER ONE ‘SOUNDS IN HIS HEAD’ ILL COLYER The same way that George Lewis and the New Orleans kids who grew up with those sounds from thecradle—Ken’swasthesamesortofbackground;he’d got sounds in his head… I’d be indoors when I was at home playing my records and obviously those sounds were going into Ken’s head. BEN MARSHALL There used to be a regular article in BtheReader’sDigestcalled“ The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met ”—Ken would be mine. His life story reads like a film script; at his peak, playing some of the most glorious jazz trumpet to be heard, and at his lowest, suffering the pain and distress of serious illness and seemingly throughout his life a victim of the frustration he felt, as crystallised in a quote from his book, which he gave me years ago, New Orleans and Back : “I was born about 60 years too late, the wrong colour and in the wrong country—a misfit.” JULIAN DAVIES There’s that little bit in McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell—a book that meant a lot to Ken. “The people in a number of the stories—in this book—are the kind that many writers haverecentlygotintothehabitofreferringtoas‘littlepeople’.”Iregard thisphraseaspatronisingandrepulsive.Therearenolittlepeopleinthis book. They are as big as you are… whoever you are.” DIZ DISLEY I used to think he reminded me of Stalin. He wasn’t a very good player but he was a good bloke. KEN COLYER SomepeopletendtothinkthatI’mverynarrow-minded in my musical tastes. But this isn’t so. I am in what I want to play. But of course, I mean, I like other styles of jazz, as well. And I’m well aware of them, you know. The display case for the MONTY SUNSHINE Ken was very, very deeply feeling the music. start of British Jazz at the That’s what he felt, and that’s all you needed to have, as far as I was British Music Experience concerned, and I enjoyed his playing, which was fine; he was a great in London with Ken’s pleasure to play with. I mean, in a way it’s the same as—the Hot Fives Derby mute and trumpet and so on are all very well, but in a way, it would be better if Louis played at the centre like George Mitchell. I’ve heard that remark more or less made. Well, Ken was like that. He had that quality, that you don’t notice. 17 GoKeinn’CHoolymere||CChhapatpetreOrnOen| Ie n|T‘ShoeuBnegdisnnininhg is head’ JULIAN DAVIES I realised that down there even, and found out what it was really like to be a Ken photographed at blackman—whichhewouldhavefoundout—reallyfoundout. the flat in Lillie Road, for the first time in my life And Ken Colyer said he couldn’t go in to the boozer with Fulham, London in 1956 I was listening to a man ’em, because of the colour bar. who actually meant what he COLIN BOWDEN I know that he liked Harry James, and I know that he liked Percy Humphrey, but he probably liked all played. He wasn’t just playing oftheveryNewOrleansplayers.Buthehadalotofrespectfor a tune, he was living it. musicians outside his genre. “Man, you sound just like DOUG LANDAU His technique was well crafted rather than spectacular, but this was probably an artistic choice; he is on Mutt Carey.” Ken turned record as thinking Louis Armstrong’s dominating to me and said, “Do you flamboyance to be “not for the benefit of the band.” His approachstoodhimingoodsteadwhentacklingtheintricacies want to join my band?” ofrags,whichhealwayscarriedoffwithauthority.Stylistically he was much influenced by most of the New Orleans PAT HAWES I often got the feeling, when I was playing with trumpetersthatcametotheforeintherevival,MuttCareyand him, that he’d much rather be somewhere else, or doing Bunk in particular, but he was never a slavish copyist, something else. There is for my mind a distinct link fashioning these influences in his own way. between the playing of Ken Colyer and Miles Davis. But I can hear it up there, rather than I can put it down on my KEN SIMS He wasn’t a stomper. I mean, if you listen to fingers, or writing or whatever. Herman Autrey or George Mitchell—they joined the rhythm section. Ken didn’t do that—he was a lyrical, melodic player. SONNY MORRIS Around ’53 when he came back from New Beautiful. Orleans, he was over the moon about Percy Humphrey. That was the greatest thing ever, according to Ken, when he came PHILIP LARKIN Colyer combines a robust public back from there—Percy Humphrey. personality with the tenderest of instrumental tones. BILL COLYER Butofcourse,playingatsea,yougottheopen- DICK SMITH He did sort of bully you a bit. But when you airlungs,soKenwasloud.Don’tforget,he’dheardWildBillin joinedhisbandyouknewwhatyouwereexpectedto…belike. Condon’s,whowaspowerful,andtheywereonlytinyclubsin Yeah, he told me not to do anything fancy. None of this New York, so you’d sit this close to Wild Bill. That’s a wall of bopping. And you could tell whether you were in with him. If sound. Ken was on an “Iron Chops” thing. He learnt light you were standing behind him, you’d know. and shade afterwards, power not noise. I enjoyed it with Ken. I don’t know how, but he just managed to bring the best out in you. JIM GODBOLT All the guys that were making a lot of money out of New Orleans jazz never went there, including STAN GREIG He was alright. I mean… he was a bit grumpy, Humphrey Lyttleton, by the way—I don’t think Humph ever that was the only thing. I thought he was just a guy with very went to New Orleans. But Ken did—he made the effort; definite ideas. Nothin’ wrong with that. gettingonthatboat,gettingofftheboat,jumpingship,onthe bus down to New Orleans. It was like Scott of the Antarctic. DELPHINE COLYER I think he thought everyone was against him—I don’t think he thought many people were on ED O’DONNELL One day I said I thought Mezzrow’s book his side. If he had a sort of magic session, I suppose he would werealoadofrubbish;well…Kenwentupintheair.Sitsdown have thought that we were all going the same way, but I think an’ mumbles something and John Parker gets up and sits he was fighting an uphill battle all the time, really. down between us and says “Get on with your dinner.” And I never got a chance to explain. KEN SIMS A very kind man—he was very good to me. And I thought: “You jumped your ship, took a risk, made Without him I would have been sleeping in doorways, your way down on the Greyhound, and went down to New certainlyatthattime.EvenwiththeBilkband,itwasveryhard Orleans, and Mezzrow didn’t have to do that.” You know, to save any money. Couldn’t go home to Mum. Mezzrow got some money off his father, probably, which he Ken was there—at Lillie Road—but he was having some could’ve.Imean,hecould’vetakenatraindownthere,orabus kindofproblemswithhisstomach.Hehadthisladycomingin Goin’ Home | Chapter One | ‘Sounds in his head’ to care for him, who cooked him enormous meals, and Ken of view, and he was quite exciting to play with. All musicians Ken with Sister Rosetta wouldgivememostofit,soI’deatmineandhis.Andhehadan should have the “Four Ts”: Timing, Tone, Taste and Tharpe at the 51 amazing record collection. Small groups from the Basie band, Technique. By technique I mean being able to do what you and then the next one would be what sounded to me like a want to on your instrument. second-rateSalvationArmyband—anditwaswonderfulstuff. ALAN COOPER He was unswerving, never mind whether it JOHNNY PARKER Well,personally,Iwasfrightenedofhim, made a few bob or it didn’t. I mean, he was doing something because, you know, it was the old class thing of middle-class and he said this is what it’s about and did it, and I have the from a grammar school and there he was—rough speaking. greatest admiration and respect for that. And so the wheel He looked as though, you know, he’d sooner hit you than talk moves an inch further. to you. JOHN KEEN He was initially a jazz fan, like a lot of us were; CHRIS BARBER His accent, to me, always sounded a bit like we wanted to play like that. But he was much more talented a cross between Australian and Birmingham, which is about than most of us. And he soon found that he could play the same—a funny, very strange accent. effectively, but he also had a kind of a latent potential Ken sounded about the same to me, all the time. I mean… leadership inside of him, which meant that he knew what he it’s a very recognisable, individual sort of accent; it’s his voice wanted quite early on; and from what I know of him, he more than the accent. Stu Morrison can do it perfectly. When actually used to go around to people’s houses and say, “Look, Stujoinedtheband,StuwasstandingbehindIanWheeler,and we’re gonna form a band and this is what it’s gonna be like.” Stu said “Wheeler,” and Ian nearly jumped out of his skin, Idon’tknowwhetherthewordcrusade isright,buthehad because he thought Ken was standing behind him. akindofavision,anditalsofittedinwiththatpost-warworld of: “Well, this is a democratic music and those people who RON BOWDEN He didn’t speak a lot; but when he did, you weren’t commercial in the United States—the black blokes knew what he meant. who played from their heart—they never got the exposure, and perhaps it’s up to us to do it.” DAVE BRENNAN I never found Ken a particularly disagreeableman.Hewasjustforthright.Somethingspleased BILL REID Hedid haveamagictohim.ButquitehowKenhad himenormously.IoncesaidheremindedmeofLeeCollinsin this magic, and this awe that got over to people, I don’t know, some of his playing.
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